But the road keeps coming at you, and you find no place to rest...

[leahbobet]

One of the things I'm liking less about the dayjob beat -- although this isn't entirely the dayjob's fault, but also my overfull plate o' projects -- is that I spend a lot of time very tired or kind of brainburnt. So on the weekend I sleep and sort of let my brain cool, and by the time it's fit for work again it's late Saturday night. Which leaves me one functional day to do any writing: Sunday, between the laundry and groceries and cleaning and what social time there is and so forth and and. And, well. Late Saturday night. Like now.

I think I went through most of a pint of Haagen-Dazs (coffee caramel, thankya), two pots of tea (apple ginger and Stash acai) and five tea lights, but I got some work done tonight.

I need to find a way to balance my life out enough that this, just this, doesn't feel like a monumental accomplishment.

Comments

[msagara.livejournal.com]

I wrote on lunch when I worked full time and managed the bookstore. I had one of the ibm "portables" (2 floppies, no hard drive and you could break your foot and the flooring if you dropped it).

It was not terribly easy at the start, but a) I am not a foodie in any way, so eating is something I did in order to not fall over later and b) I wanted to write when I had brain cells that were functioning. C) would be the month I spent writing a couple of sentences or even a page that I would then delete the next day.

But my subconscious finally rolled over, said Uncle, and at that point, I could reliably write three or four pages a day in the back room on lunch.

[gwynnega]

Oh boy, I can relate. Alas.

I write during lunch during the workweek, but the weekend is the only time I can get longer stretches of writing done.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

My sympathies.

Lately, it's feeling like a monumental accomplishment when I don't sleep or wander aimlessly without direction all weekend. So, I wish you very good luck.

[dreamnnightmare.livejournal.com]

Good writing at any pace IS an accomplishment. Full-time writing for Asimov was a couple of pages a day.

[joycemocha.livejournal.com]

I get up half an hour early and write in the morning before I leave for work. No TV, no newspaper, 15 minutes to check e-mail and LJ before I head out the door. There's been times when I've written at lunch during the day job, but that doesn't seem to work as well unless I'm either really on fire or doing edits. Sometimes I can write at night but night usually seems to be the best time for doing edits--and then maybe extending the earlier bits by a couple of hundred words.

[wirewalking.livejournal.com]

*blink blink*

You can eat most of a pint of ice cream and then put the rest away?

I am in awe of this, for it is beyond the scope of my discipline.

Butyes. Balancing = hard. May you have better luck with it than I do.